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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

A comment on recent comments

Unless you are a particularly keen and careful reader of this blog, you will probably not go back, a few days after a post appears, and see what comments (if any) have been made on it. But if you are at all interested in the question of how a writer can get a book recognised by the public without being pushed hard by a big-time publisher, then I suggest you take a look at the debate which has been going on in relation to my post of last Thursday about the Screenbiz interview with Francis Ellen.

Personally I largely agree with what Francis Ellen has to say. Which is just as well, because if we ever got into the ring I suspect that his left jab would loosen some of my teeth in about a round and a half.

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